Couples therapy intensives

The couples arm is for partners who have reached a decision point. Sometimes that is a rupture with a date attached. Sometimes it is the slower recognition that the way the relationship currently works will not hold for another decade.

Weekly couples therapy can spend much of its hour reopening the same argument and closing it again before anything underneath has moved. An intensive changes the unit of work. A concentrated block gives a couple time to get past the presenting fight and into the structure beneath it, which is usually where repair actually happens.

The work is delivered by Lucy Orton, who is a Certified Sex Therapist and an RLT-trained relationship therapist.

Format, availability and how to begin are set out in full at couplesawaken.com, where the couples practice is based.